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Having trouble deploying Lemmy? Try my new script! Get up and running in minutes! (github.com)
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In the past few days, I've seen a number of people having trouble getting Lemmy set up on their own servers. That motivated me to create Lemmy-Easy-Deploy, a dead-simple solution to deploying Lemmy using Docker Compose under the hood.

To accommodate people new to Docker or self hosting, I've made it as simple as I possibly could. Edit the config file to specify your domain, then run the script. That's it! No manual configuration is needed. Your self hosted Lemmy instance will be up and running in about a minute or less. Everything is taken care of for you. Random passwords are created for Lemmy's microservices, and HTTPS is handled automatically by Caddy.

Updates are automatic too! Run the script again to detect and deploy updates to Lemmy automatically.

If you are an advanced user, plenty of config options are available. You can set this to compile Lemmy from source if you want, which is useful for trying out Release Candidate versions. You can also specify a Cloudflare API token, and if you do, HTTPS certificates will use the DNS challenge instead. This is helpful for Cloudflare proxy users, who can have issues with HTTPS certificates sometimes.

Try it out and let me know what you think!

https://github.com/ubergeek77/Lemmy-Easy-Deploy

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Any ideas how to solve this? Everthing works according to docker..

XXXXX@lemmy:~/Lemmy-Easy-Deploy$ ./deploy.sh

Lemmy-Easy-Deploy by ubergeek77 (v1.1.1)

Detected runtime: docker (Docker version 24.0.2, build cb74dfc) Detected compose: docker compose (Docker Compose version v2.18.1) Runtime state: ERROR

ERROR: Docker runtime not healthy. Something is wrong with your Docker installation. Please ensure you can run the following command on your own without errors: docker run --rm -it -v $(pwd):/host:ro hello-world

If you see any errors while running that command, please Google the error messages to see if any of the solutions work for you. Once Docker is functional on your system, you can try running Lemmy Easy Deploy again.

XXXXX@lemmy:~/Lemmy-Easy-Deploy$ sudo docker run --rm -it -v $(pwd):/host:ro hello-world [sudo] password for XXXXX:

Hello from Docker! This message shows that your installation appears to be working correctly.

To generate this message, Docker took the following steps:

  1. The Docker client contacted the Docker daemon.
  2. The Docker daemon pulled the "hello-world" image from the Docker Hub. (amd64)
  3. The Docker daemon created a new container from that image which runs the executable that produces the output you are currently reading.
  4. The Docker daemon streamed that output to the Docker client, which sent it to your terminal.

To try something more ambitious, you can run an Ubuntu container with: $ docker run -it ubuntu bash

Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Looks like you just need to either add your user to the docker group, or run the script as root!